Previous Conferences & Workshops

Mar
22
2005

Joint IAS/Princeton University Complex Geometry Seminar

Analytic Torsion on Calabi-Yau Manifolds
2:30pm|S-101

We study spectral invariants of torsion type on Calabi-Yau manifolds of dimension three. We define a new holomorphic invariant modifying the so-called BCOV torsion and explore its applications in the study of moduli space of Calabi-Yau manifolds...

Mar
22
2005

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar III

Information Theory and Probability Estimation
Alon Orlitsky
11:30am|S-101

Standard information-theoretic results show that data over small, typically binary, alphabets can be compressed to Shannon's entropy limit. Yet most practical sources, such as text, audio, or video, have essentially infinite support. Compressing...

Mar
22
2005

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

1 Dimensional Diffusion Limited Aggregation (DLA)
Gideon Amir
10:30am|S-101

In a paper from 1981 Sanders and Witten introduced the (2-Dim) DLA process --- a stochastic growth model, in which a "Discrete fractal" subset of $Z^2$ is grown from the origin in an inductive process, where in each step a particle, starting at...

Mar
21
2005

Members’ Seminar

Polynomiality Properties of Type A Weight and Tensor Product Multiplicities
4:00pm|S-101

Kostka numbers and Littlewood-Richardson coefficients appear in the representation theory of complex semisimple Lie algebras of type A, respectively as the multiplicities of weights in irreducible representations, and the multiplicities of...

Mar
21
2005

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Network Games and the Price of Stability or Anarchy
Eva Tardos
11:15am|S-101

In this talk we will consider settings where multiple agents each pursue their own selfish interests, each represented by his own objective function. Traditional algorithms design assumes that the problem is described by a single objective function...